NEWS RELEASE: Life Update for Caleb & Verlynda, plus rebranding and new shows coming!

Welcome Back: Where We’ve Been and What’s Next for the Podcast In our 280th episode, we provide an update after a five-year hiatus! We discuss our personal experiences, including burnout, career changes, and coping with the pandemic. The episode covers the transition from our old OnlyYouForever brand to the new Therapevo Counselling brand, highlighting the expanded focus on diverse counseling topics and services. We also touch on rebranding the podcast to ‘Normalize therapy.’ and adding a new YouTube channel. We talk about upcoming content and plans to expand our social media presence and blogging. We are so excited about returning and invite listeners to join us on this new journey! Timeline 00:00 Welcome Back! Introduction and Episode Overview 00:31 Reflecting on the Past: Life Since 2020 07:19 Current Affairs: Rebranding and New Beginnings 12:34 Looking Ahead: Season 2 and Future Plans 18:32 Conclusion: Thank You and See You Soon Episode Transcript Caleb: Welcome to the marriage podcast for smart people. Verlynda: We haven’t said that in a long time. Caleb: we have not, this is our 280th episode! And we’re thankful that you’ve joined us again today. And our plan for today is to talk about three things. Number one, where we’ve been since 2020 when we last published an episode and what’s been going on. Number two is where we’re at presently. And number three is what is coming up next in season two: a rebrand, a new name for the podcast, and a lot of the great content that you’re already used to. So Verlynda: Hmm. Caleb: Without further ado, we’re going to skip our usual intro roll because we are changing a lot of things right now, and we’ll get to all that. But let’s, you know, Verlynda, let’s start in with this topic[00:01:00] Verlynda: Yeah. Caleb: been since 2020. What are Verlynda: Life has changed. Yeah. Big pieces. I mean, well, in your life is kind of one of the big ones that played a major part. Caleb: Yeah. Yeah. So, and I think we should tell folks too that we’re recording this five about five years since we last recorded. Verlynda: Yes. Caleb: to it sometime in the future, that’s the gap between episode 279 and episode 280. So yeah, the biggest thing for me 2020 was kind of that second year of COVID, am I right? Verlynda: March 2020, it started or our country shut down. Caleb: Okay, yeah, we started getting into the thick of it. We were getting pretty burnt out on podcasting at the time, because we’d done a weekly show for quite a while, and that had been pretty intense for us. Kept up, a pace on that. I think we were doing like a little more sophisticated, a little more complex episodes too, which was cool. Verlynda: Yeah. More research. Caleb: Yeah. And I’d also been like hammering away at starting this [00:02:00] business or counseling business at that point for six years had been counseling for 20, that’d be about 10, 11 years at that point myself doing some mixed vocational stuff, of course, in there. But I also had a huge bout of burnout, compassion fatigue as a therapist. So that was a big thing that was going on. And I think it was 2020. Was it that summer or the next summer where I actually tapped out for a while? Do you Verlynda: I think it was that summer. Yeah. Caleb: and I just wasn’t paying attention to how [00:03:00] absolutely exhausted my body was. So, yeah, that was a huge a huge thing for us and fortunately had other people to kind of keep the business going. And you filled in a bit there, Verlynda, on the business side, too. We had a great administrator, Vivian at the time, who was helping us and I started coming back into the business in the fall. And then I don’t think I really started counseling until late 2020 or the start of the next year. Really? So seeing clients again. So I tried to really take the recovery seriously, get back on my feet and that kind of stuff because it is a career that means a lot to me and I wanted to stay in it. Verlynda: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then during this time, like we had three teenagers in the house, we were in that stage of like, We’re beginning to launch them and it, it just took a lot of energy, Caleb: kind of energy. Yeah. Verlynda: yeah, different situations and Caleb: families do of like running to all those games and Verlynda: yes, kids and [00:04:00] sports. Caleb: yeah Verlynda: Yeah. Caleb: pretty heavily involved in church at the time. Verlynda: Yeah. Caleb: there Verlynda: So something had, Caleb: stress Verlynda: sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Caleb: Yeah. Verlynda: Yeah. Something had to go. Yeah. And then, I mean, the counseling agency took off during COVID because we were online already and Yeah, a way that business went. And then I went back to school beginning of 2021. I went back to school to get my marriage and family therapy. My master’s in marriage and family therapy is the official name. Loved it. Loved every minute of it. Love the ...